Academic Continuity

This microlearning will give you the practical, transferable skills needed to navigate GenAI confidently.

At Hostos, departments provide instructors with learning outcomes or course descriptions published in the course catalog. While these outcomes provide a strong foundation, applying the principles of Backward Design helps align your course goals, assessments, and instructional activities with these outcomes. This alignment allows you to work within the framework of the senate-approved objectives while delivering a well-structured, student-centered, and [...]

This microlearning program provides prompts that will help participants write assignment instructions that align with particular objectives targeting specific Bloom’s Taxonomy levels.

CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS Now Enrolling! 2024-2025 Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Online Training and Campus Collaborative The CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy is offering an asynchronous training course that demonstrates UDL guidelines through examples of course design, content, tools, activities, research, assessments, and software demonstrations when applicable. This training will cover the newly updated UDL Version 3.0 guidelines. {{ vc_btn: title=Register&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23002f6d&outline_custom_hover_background=&outline_custom_hover_text=%23e16000&shape=square&i_icon_fontawesome=fas+fa-user-plus&css_animation=bounceInDown&css=&add_icon=true&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fforms.office.com%252Fpages%252Fresponsepage.aspx%253Fid%253Ds_BgbwZfCU6XFZiduozH2MPC-mC7QK9GmJ8kywgnm4dUOUhKRk00WU4wRU9RRjdQNkdITkFFUDlERy4u%2526route%253Dshorturl%7Ctarget%3A_blank }} [...]

In this self-paced series, you will explore key strategies and tools to ensure that your online teaching meets the RSI standards set by the U.S. Department of Education.

Instructor-led Workshops Instructor-led workshops are live, online sessions that offer real-time interaction with faculty members. These training sessions provide hands-on learning opportunities and allow faculty to apply what they have learned in a dynamic and interactive environment. TBD

Knowing how to navigate Blackboard essential tasks is an advantage because they allow instructors to copy course content from previous semester into the current one and with little modifications, the course would be ready in a breeze. If teaching multiple sections of the same course, merging them into one allows faculty to concentrate in only one course instead of many. [...]

The Hostos Teaching Institute is a professional development program developed by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Academic Affairs to promote continuous improvement and the advancement of faculty pedagogical approaches in order to foster teaching excellence and innovation.

By Ana Marjanovic, Instructional Designer & LMS Admin, EdTech Have you ever felt overwhelmed while trying to compile numerous documents in various formats, scattered on your hard drive into a single file? It almost feels like a cluttered desk where you can't find the pen you just put down a moment ago. And let's not even talk about the painstaking [...]

Student engagement has suffered significantly as students appear disconnected and unresponsive to faculty inquiries. Some instructors are frustrated because they have tried various philosophies and still do not receive the desired motivation from their students. However, there are numerous tools and apps available to assist faculty in engaging and motivating students, including the use of Groups, Discussion Boards, Journals, Blogs, [...]